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...Henry Wechsler, a lecturer at the School of Public Health, whose report on binge drinking helped set the coalition in motion, called the plan "a useful first step," but said more needs to be done...
...recent study by Henry Wechsler, lecturer of social psychology at Harvard's School of Public Health, indicates that students who drink are drinking more heavily than five years ago, and that 52.3 percent of all college students drink with the intention of getting drunk...
...Wechsler found that students who drink to excess are more likely to fight, damage property and get arrested...
...Harvard was part of Wechsler's study. Our numbers are somewhat lower than national averages, but by no means comfortingly low. Anecdotally, I would say that every year we have instances where students have put themselves in very serious medical jeopardy, often through consumption of mixtures containing unknown quantities of unknown alcoholic beverages...
...There is no single source to this problem and there is no single solution, hence our multifaceted approach. We are very fortunate in not having some of the things that other colleges have to deal with, fraternities in particular, which Wechsler shows are associated with almost universal binge drinking among their members. We are also fortunate that virtually all of our students live in Harvard housing. We will continue the efforts made last year to enhance alcohol-free social events, in Loker and elsewhere...